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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 21, 2022 1:03:41 GMT -5
What are your musical tastes? I have very broad tastes, encompassing everything from pre-war blues to Indian classical music, to big beat and hip hop, to country & western and many points in between. But my mainstays are '60s and early 70s rock, pop, jazz and soul, and 90s indie/alternative rock. I'm a big, big Beatles fan too.
Speaking of 60's-70's... I had my player on "shuffle" on my way home from band practice (Exotic Ones) tonight, when this little gem popped up in the rotation.
I think I've decided that we're going to add it to our covers list.
and a reminder that "shuffle all" yield some pretty strange results when you have over 20,000 tracks in your player.
For instance, the next three songs in the shuffle were these:
A true mixed bag for sure...
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2022 3:12:17 GMT -5
Melanie is underrated for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 5:02:26 GMT -5
What are your musical tastes? I have very broad tastes, encompassing everything from pre-war blues to Indian classical music, to big beat and hip hop, to country & western and many points in between. But my mainstays are '60s and early 70s rock, pop, jazz and soul, and 90s indie/alternative rock. I'm a big, big Beatles fan too. That's great, I think having broad appreciation opens up so much. I'll tell a little more about my background in a moment here (beyond my flare for 80's guitars), but the Beatles was really the start of everything for me, and the first albums I actually bought on my own as a kid (Penny Lane was the first full song I learned on guitar in fact). My son is now a huge Beatles fan which he discovered all on his own, and I love seeing another generation fall in love with them. For 60's, beyond the Beatles, I actually really love Henry Mancini. Even before Penny Lane, I remember the first thing I figured out on guitar was the basic riff to the Peter Gunn theme. My parents had a best hits collection of Ventures tunes I loved as well, and to this day I really love old surf rock. Even more so than a lot of British Invasion material actually, though in addition to the Beatles I really liked the Kinks from the early wave (and Cream just floored me the first time I heard them, I think I spent a good part of one summer learning Clapton's parts).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 5:54:42 GMT -5
Speaking of highbrow (or very much the opposite), my main guitars below probably tell my story as a musician. I do like to listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I'm a metal guy at heart and my 80's roots tend to show through.
I know, I had plenty of issues of that mag, but never owned a "superstrat". By the time the hair metal era rolled around, I had already moved on to more "serious" music. I think the last two albums of that genre that I bought new were Twisted Sister's "Come Out and Play" and Keel's "Final Frontier" in 1985... the year I graduated from college. So yeah, I was probably phasing out of it as you were phasing in. Don't get me wrong, MTV was still a thing back then and I still watched a lot of it right up to the grunge era when they stopped being a music channel. So I was still exposed to a lot of metal-ish bands from that era, it just really didn't interest me any more. This may sound like sacrilege, but I never got into Motley Crue or Metallica, mainly because they were hitting the scene about the time that I was getting bored with it.
Oh, and please don't make me post guitarporn pics... I'll be here all week. Literally. I totally subscribed to GFTPM, it was by far the best mag, had the best tabs, etc. So I started to tell my story above, but I wasn't originally a hard rocker at all (that's what the bad kids listened to ha ha!) It was Beatles at the start, and one day as a kid I picked up an old nylon string acoustic my parents had (they didn't play, it was more of a "hippy prop") and just started figuring stuff out. I guess I had an ear for it right out of the gate, and my parents put me into private lessons, and I had this awesome hippy dude who was very talented and insisted I really learn a broad foundation (it helped that he was a huge Beatles fan as well and we clicked early on). And then the life changing moment for me when I knew I wanted to become a musician...I saw the Blues Brothers movie and despite it being a comedy, I thought that band was the coolest thing ever and I started learning Matt Murphy and Steve Crocker's parts. And bugged my parents for my first electric, a strat, so I could become a bluesman. Everyone else was playing Van Halen at that point, and I wanted to cover B Movie Boxcar Blues for the school talent show. But alas, the 80's prevailed and I met kids in high school who were into metal and all of a sudden my hair grew out and I got my first "superstrat" and the rest was history. Dokken, Ratt, Metallica, Crue, Megadeth, Cinderella, Testament, etc. It was just an amazing time to be a musician, and I was living in the Boston area so there was plenty of opportunity to be in bands and play out (though like every other band from that time, LA was the ultimate dream). Being East Coast, we were trying to get our demo tape to Bon Jovi since they were helping out younger bands, and Extreme was the big act on the local club scene just getting signed so we were also trying to follow in their footsteps. After '93, the music scene in the US changed too much for me and I walked away from it until towards the end of the 90's / early 2000's. I discovered a lot of the Scandinavian heavy metal scene that had developed, and it totally re-inspired me and I got very active again, and I've never looked back since (I had the best time in the 2000's in particular both as a musician and just appreciating music). My new handle "Jaska" actually is my "Finnish name" from when I was taking immersive Finnish language lessons back then, I really became quite attached to the culture, even working with a boutique guitar builder over there who built me a custom guitar over the course of a year. For gear, yes, I am totally asking you to post pictures, I know you have quite the collection! I've sold off a fair amount of my guitar collection over the last few years (it was a little out of hand at one point, and I wasn't making good use of the nice Fenders and Gibsons), but I still love searching for rare stuff. Honestly, it has probably been the pandemic hyperinflation of prices (much like comic books and most everything else) that has slowed me down on growing the collection again. I'll leave you with one more I still have though, this little classy number I bought from one of the guitar players in Warrant many years ago:
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Post by commond on Jan 21, 2022 6:51:47 GMT -5
I will listen to just about anything if it's recommended to me, but my main interests are blues, funk, soul, jazz, gospel, country, punk, post-punk, new wave, indy pop, power pop, jangle pop, and metal. I wouldn't call myself a huge metal-head, but I am versed in Scandinavian metal. I am always heavily into Japanese rock having lived in Japan for 16 years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 6:58:53 GMT -5
I am always heavily into Japanese rock having lived in Japan for 16 years. That sounds like an amazing experience, do you have any recommendations with Japanese rock? This is again old school, but I always loved Loudness and Akira Takasaki is a great guitar player, though admittedly I don't know many other bands from Japan. I do love how much they seem to love Rock and Metal over there as well, it seems much as there has been a lot of declining interest in the USA for those genres, they continue to run strong there.
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Post by commond on Jan 21, 2022 7:09:45 GMT -5
I am always heavily into Japanese rock having lived in Japan for 16 years. That sounds like an amazing experience, do you have any recommendations with Japanese rock? This is again old school, but I always loved Loudness and Akira Takasaki is a great guitar player, though admittedly I don't know many other bands from Japan. I do love how much they seem to love Rock and Metal over there as well, it seems much as there has been a lot of declining interest in the USA for those genres, they continue to run strong there. Sure, start with X Japan. If you like them, I have many more recommendations.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 7:31:31 GMT -5
That sounds like an amazing experience, do you have any recommendations with Japanese rock? This is again old school, but I always loved Loudness and Akira Takasaki is a great guitar player, though admittedly I don't know many other bands from Japan. I do love how much they seem to love Rock and Metal over there as well, it seems much as there has been a lot of declining interest in the USA for those genres, they continue to run strong there. Sure, start with X Japan. If you like them, I have many more recommendations. Oh, I like this a lot actually. I'm going to be spending some time today listening to their back catalogue, this is a great recommendation. Thanks!
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Post by impulse on Jan 21, 2022 10:45:22 GMT -5
It's pretty highbrow stuff...
Speaking of highbrow (or very much the opposite), my main guitars below probably tell my story as a musician. I do like to listen to a lot of different kinds of music, but I'm a metal guy at heart and my 80's roots tend to show through. I can smell the hairspray in this photo. Love it. I'm also a (home) guitar player and just got my first drum set (wanted one since my first year of college. I never played professionally, but I try to record when I can. I've never formally written out a full song, but I have a good collection of riffs and parts I think I could make a few non-embarrassing songs from. My favorite guitar is the first I ever bought. It was a cheap Squire Strat from the 90s that I've replaced pretty much everything inside on. New wiring, new Fender hot pickups, locking tuners. It's funny because I play mostly metal, but it just feels so comfortable and natural in my hands. I know my way around that neck like it's the back of my hand. A friend is making a custom super Strat, and I suspect once I get a strat with a bridge humbucker the Squire is getting some competition.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2022 11:16:51 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2021
# 63 - Illegal Smile - John Prine
This was the opener on Prine's 1971 debut album and it made it clear that Prine was something entirely new on the music scene. Not only with his clear prowess as a songwriter but with a sense of humor that permeated so many of his songs. But he wasn't a novelty song writer. There's incredible depth in all his work and this little ditty about getting a little smoke to feel better is no exception.
I like this live performance and regret that I never managed to see him perform live.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2022 11:21:35 GMT -5
I have very broad tastes, encompassing everything from pre-war blues to Indian classical music, to big beat and hip hop, to country & western and many points in between. But my mainstays are '60s and early 70s rock, pop, jazz and soul, and 90s indie/alternative rock. I'm a big, big Beatles fan too. That's great, I think having broad appreciation opens up so much. I'll tell a little more about my background in a moment here (beyond my flare for 80's guitars), but the Beatles was really the start of everything for me, and the first albums I actually bought on my own as a kid (Penny Lane was the first full song I learned on guitar in fact). My son is now a huge Beatles fan which he discovered all on his own, and I love seeing another generation fall in love with them. For 60's, beyond the Beatles, I actually really love Henry Mancini. Even before Penny Lane, I remember the first thing I figured out on guitar was the basic riff to the Peter Gunn theme. My parents had a best hits collection of Ventures tunes I loved as well, and to this day I really love old surf rock. Even more so than a lot of British Invasion material actually, though in addition to the Beatles I really liked the Kinks from the early wave (and Cream just floored me the first time I heard them, I think I spent a good part of one summer learning Clapton's parts). The "Peter Gunn Theme" was one of the first things I learned on guitar too...soon after "Wild Thing" and "Blowin' in the Wind". Although my inspiration for learning it was more because of Duane Eddy's version and The Art of Noise's 80s reworking, rather than Henry Mancini's original. Even after all these years, the central riff is still one of my favourite things to play on guitar. I quite like The Ventures too, along with plenty of other Surf Rock from that era. In fact, the very first band I was in at age 15, back in the early 90s, did '50s and early '60s rock 'n' roll covers and was named Walk Don't Run after The Ventures' song.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 21, 2022 12:04:36 GMT -5
It was just an amazing time to be a musician, and I was living in the Boston area so there was plenty of opportunity to be in bands and play out (though like every other band from that time, LA was the ultimate dream). I lived in the Boston area 1988-91, and used to follow a local band then known as Slipknot (when the other Slipknot became famous, they shortened their name to The Knot). Did you ever encounter them? They're still around: knotbuzz1.wixsite.com/knot and www.facebook.com/The-Knot-351083073175/
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 12:06:48 GMT -5
I can smell the hairspray in this photo. Love it. I'm also a (home) guitar player and just got my first drum set (wanted one since my first year of college. I never played professionally, but I try to record when I can. I've never formally written out a full song, but I have a good collection of riffs and parts I think I could make a few non-embarrassing songs from. My favorite guitar is the first I ever bought. It was a cheap Squire Start from the 90s that I've replaced pretty much everything inside on. New wiring, new Fender hot pickups, locking tuners. It's funny because I play mostly metal, but it just feels so comfortable and natural in my hands. I know my way around that neck like it's the back of my hand. A friend is making a customer super Strat, and I suspect once I get a strat with a bridge humbucker the Squire is getting some competition. The hairspray is important. To be a great 80's guitar player, you need a garish paint scheme on your guitar, a high gain amplifier, and a case of Aquanet. You are not alone on your Squire Strat, there are some great ones that have the wonderful Strat neck feel. You could always throw a single coil sized humbucker in the bridge position if you wanted to (or just replace the whole pickguard with a humbucker loaded one if the guitar underneath the pickguard has the "swimming pool" routing), but honestly, sometimes traditional strat sounds are great for heavier music as well. John Norum from Europe regularly gets great tone from them. But yeah, humbucker loaded superstrats definitely have a lot of beef to them, the whole marriage of a Fender's awesome neck feel with the thick tone of a Gibson.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 12:11:44 GMT -5
The "Peter Gunn Theme" was one of the first things I learned on guitar too...soon after "Wild Thing" and "Blowin' in the Wind". Although my inspiration for learning it was more because of Duane Eddy's version and The Art of Noise's 80s reworking, rather than Henry Mancini's original. Even after all these years, the central riff is still one of my favourite things to play on guitar. I quite like The Ventures too, along with plenty of other Surf Rock from that era. In fact, the very first band I was in at age 15, back in the early 90s, did '50s and early '60s rock 'n' roll covers and was named Walk Don't Run after The Ventures' song. I am embarrassed to say I discovered Duane Eddy way too late in life (Chet Atkins as well, but that's a whole other topic). I love his version. "Walk Don't Run makes" for a fantastic band name as well, very cool!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 12:28:33 GMT -5
It was just an amazing time to be a musician, and I was living in the Boston area so there was plenty of opportunity to be in bands and play out (though like every other band from that time, LA was the ultimate dream). I lived in the Boston area 1988-91, and used to follow a local band then known as Slipknot (when the other Slipknot became famous, they shortened their name to The Knot). Did you ever encounter them? They're still around: knotbuzz1.wixsite.com/knot and www.facebook.com/The-Knot-351083073175/That would have been right when I was there, and I'm trying to place them. I don't exactly remember (things have blurred over the years a bit for me), it is very possible though. It reminds me though that sometimes we couldn't get into all the venues, we were still really young back then and it was sort of hit or miss who would let us play. We totally had the right image and pretty good playing skills for a brash group of kids dreaming of stardom, but were literally still in our teens (I actually played my first gig at 14). Didn't slow us down though, we played our tails off. I think it was '89 when we kind of "matured", we took the summer off and the bass player and drummer went to a summer Berklee music college program, and they got MUCH better. I was practicing probably at least 7 hours a day at that point, so I made good use of my time as well. The singer didn't do jack, but he looked awesome and would bring a crowd.
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